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  1. Toy car set used by child on the Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13908
    • English
    • a: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) c: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 3.690 inches (9.373 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) d: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) e: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm) g: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 3.370 inches (8.56 cm) | Depth: 3.120 inches (7.925 cm)

  2. VE Day in Germany

    US Army soldiers receiving the news that the war is over (staged). Liberators listening to field radio and learning about the end of the war (staged). Men jumping for joy and drinking liquor. Men removing tarp from supply and covering cannon, writing in white chalk: "7 May 1945 So Long Berlin, Hello Tokyo." In small German town, mayor telling group of women and children that the war is over. People/child walking and bicycling. Refugees and displaced persons carrying belongings and lumber. German farmers working in field. Victory bonfire, pilot in FG drinking liquor. Pilot approaching airpla...

  3. Golda Meir; Israeli truce; Mid-East peace

    Part One. Meir addresses an assembly in New York. This address was simultaneously broadcast in 19 other US cities via closed circuit TV. The following people speak before Golda Meir addresses the crowd: Edward Ginsberg Dr. William A. Wexler, President of B'nai Brith Mr. Max Fisher, Honorary President of UJA Mr. Sam Rothberg introduces Golda Meir The main focus of Meir's speech is the need for the existence of an independent Jewish state and peace in the Middle East.

  4. Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch displayed during the German occupation of the Netherlands

    Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch, displayed in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940 to May 1945. These signs were used to indicate the ban of Jews from public spaces such as, swimming pools, libraries, and markets. They became widespread throughout Amsterdam in 1941. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and the Dutch surrendered five days later. Prior to the occupation, there were approximately 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands, with the majority residing in Amsterdam. The Netherlands had a reputation for being more tolerant towards minori...

  5. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of correspondence and documents related to the attempts of Ernst Rosenbaum, who immigrated to England in 1936, to bring his family, one by one, from Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence with family members and immigration officials, testimony regarding Kristallnacht, and a preprinted postcard sent from Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1944 sent to one of the Rosenbaum's cousins. Also includes an autograph album with entries mainly dating 1906-1908 but also an entry written by Eva Rosenbaum prior to joining her father in England. Includes information r...

  6. Rosemary Kincaid collection

    Consists of ten black and white photographs and three photographic postcards bearing images taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation; captions handwritten on verso; dated April 1945.

  7. Lucille Weener collection

    Consists of one photograph, which depicts Rifka Rochel Orlinsky seated and surrounded by her eight grandchildren. All of those depicted in the photograph perished in the Holocaust, except Marsha Senderowski (now Taplin) who is seated at the far left in the center row. Inscription on verso in Yiddish.

  8. Aryan race certificates

    Two certificates with printed, handwritten and typed sections: one "Gerburts=und Taufschein" and one Ahnen=Nachweis." The certificates were used to prove Aryan ancestry, as required by German law.

  9. Nazi banner

  10. Selected records from the Smolensk State Oblast Archives

    Records from the Extraordinary Commission (Fond 1630), and the Planning Commission (Fond 2434) of the Committee of the Smolensk Oblast Council. Contains commissions' depositions pertaining to Nazi atrocities during the occupation (1941-1943) of the Smolensk and Velizhsk Oblasts; lists detailing destruction of houses; reports on summary executions; ill-treatment of wounded POWs by the Nazis; reports on the execution of children with connections to the partisans; reports on the torture of local residents; lists of displaced persons; lists of civilian victims of Nazi crimes; reports on organiz...

  12. Liberation; strafing; VE Day in England

    GSAP strafing marshalling yards and rockets firing at factory area. MS of pilots firing on range. Crowds of people outside of Buckingham Palace on VE day. GSAP strafing trains and vehicles on road. Outdoor pilot briefing. GSAP dive bombing town and marshalling yards, rockets firing. Formation of P-47s flying over airfield.

  13. Book

  14. Nazi Party Winter Hilfswerk collection box

    Red collection box with Nazi insignia used by the NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers' Party] to collect contributions during the Winter Hilfswerk, a charity campaign for the relief of the German people.

  15. Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior collection

    The Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior collection consists of two petitions for the issuance of identification cards for Lejzor Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior’s paternal grandfather and of Rózia Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior's paternal great-aunt in the Radom ghetto, Poland. Petition; number 4089 for identification card by Rózia Melchior, Rabbi Malgorzata Melchior’s paternal great-aunt, born on June 12, 1889; Jewish; married; residing on 45 Słowackiego Street apt. 12 in the Radom ghetto; issued, March 22, 1941; location: Radom ghetto, Poland; in German and Polish. Petition; number 4092 fo...

  16. Bible

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- survivors (women) in hospital

    Jewish Concentration Camp. US medic examining women (former camp inmates). INT of hospital. CUs of victims and their wounds. US ambulance leaving the Red Cross hospital. Women on stretchers carried to and from ambulance. CU, German nurses.

  18. Photograph of two women

    The photograph was taken in Minsk, Belarus, and depicts two women.

  19. Vilnius Sipo und SD ( Fond R -1742/1)

    Contains lists of persons arrested and murdered during a period of the German occupation.

  20. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center